My current Society Design game/model: Route Around BigWorld (more)

Went to Bruce Sterling book signing for The Zenith Angle (ISBN:0-345-46061-8) last night. First time I've heard him speak - highly enjoyable (not just a q&a like that lazy Neal Stephenson dude). Some random bits: (more)

Went to Neal Stephenson book reading of Anathem at Union Square Barnes And Noble. Photo (more)

Attended a book-reading from Steven Johnson last night. Have some questions to nag him about - see Mind Wide Open. Meg Hourihan, Jason Kottke, and Matt Webb were there for support.

Game Rules that can have huge effects (Leverage, Side Effect) to Change The World. Games To Play toward Worldview Roadmap. (cf Theory of Change, Huge Invention) (more)

Shoshana Zuboff (born November 18, 1951)[2] is an American author, professor, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar. Zuboff is the author of the books In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power and The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism, co-authored with James Maxmin. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, integrates core themes of her research: the Digital Revolution, the evolution of capitalism, the historical emergence of psychological individuality, and the conditions for human development.[2] Zuboff's work is the source of many original concepts including "surveillance capitalism", "instrumentarian power", the "division of learning in society", "economies of action", the "means of behavior modification", "information civilization", "computer-mediated work", the "automate/informate" dialectic, "abstraction of work", "individualization of consumption" and the "coup from above". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Zuboff (more)

Cory Doctorow book: How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism ISBN:1736205900 (more)

Human–computer interaction (HCI) is research in the design and the use of computer technology, which focuses on the interfaces between people (users) and computers. HCI researchers observe the ways humans interact with computers and design technologies that allow humans to interact with computers in novel ways. A device that allows interaction between human being and a computer is known as a "Human-computer Interface (HCI)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer_interaction cf User Interface

The object database storage mechanism behind Zope. Can be used on its own as well. (more)

Frontier is the core technology of Userland, built by Dave Winer. http://frontier.userland.com/ (more)

aka Object DataBase

My research investigates the intersection of computing, human-system interfaces, and emancipatory politics. I am interested in the potential of computing as a medium for thought, as a tool for collective action, and as a means of emancipation. My current focus is basic research into the nature of digital organisation, developing theoretical toolkits to improve shared infrastructure, and applying this research to the design of new systems and protocols which support the self-organisation of knowledge and computational artifacts. https://www.orionreed.com/

spatial infinite canvas

Community of Tools-for-Thought users/builders https://talk.fission.codes/ (more)

Announcing JSON Canvas: an open file format for infinite canvas data. Today we’re excited to announce that the Obsidian Canvas file format is now called JSON Canvas and has its own site, specification, and open source resources at https://jsoncanvas.org... we created the .canvas format with an open spec. (more)

Game Engine https://godotengine.org/ Godot is completely free and open-source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godot_(game_engine) (more)

see Godot

*If GitHub Gists could run. (more)

book about data/metadata by William Kent - ISBN:1935504215 (more)

small RDBMS engine (more)